We also hope to give some sort of update regarding Hanns Ewers 'Sorcerers Apprentice' in the next few days and, that rarest of things, announce another forthcoming title. However patrons of the Press must still wait a while for any imminent physical manifestation...

Cost within the U.K. is £30.00 including postage and packing.Cost elsewhere is £35.00 which includes airmail postage and packing.

"On the days before the storms rose, a mistle thrush would perch on the roof. His song was lyrical but slightly off-key - like a cracked church bell, made sweeter and more poignant by its ominous echo. The bird sang of hidden faces in the leaves, of mouths made silent by time and our forgetfulness, and the soft fall of dust..."

Colin Insole - 'The Candles of Wildondorf'

'Elegies and Requiems' is the first major collection by this hugely talented writer and contains eighteen stories, nine of which are unique to this volume.

Insole's work explores the mysterious world where a confluence of objects and circumstance awake atavisms which draw the protagonists of his tales into mysteries infinitely greater than themselves.

In 'The Golden Birds of Mariston', an artifact weaves its magic over the population of a once mighty but now moribund city, while in 'Ancestral Rooms' a doll given to a child begins a process of familiarial transformation for its giver.

The make-believe world of childish imagination becomes something else in 'Blackthorn Cottage', whilst in 'The Bellman' the intrusions are infinitely more malignant.

Lovers of authors such as Bruno Schulz, Georges Rodenbach,
Arthur Machen and Mark Valentine will find much to admire in Insole's
delicately wrought symbolist prose style, whilst lovers of the
supernatural will admire the imagination and imagery of a writer who is regarded by many as one of the most interesting authors to emerge in recent
years.

'Elegies & Requiems' cover plus the extra postcard image.(Click on the image for a larger version.)

The contents are:

The Golden Birds Of Mariston*

The Apoplexy of Beelzebub

The Premonition

A Calendar of Cherries

Ancestral Rooms*

The Princess of Phoenicia

Blackthorn Cottage*

The Choice Child*

The Candles Of Wildondorf

The Madness of a Chalk Giant*

The Weimar Spider

The Very Thought of You*

The Flower of the Sun

Waving at the Train*

The Appassionata Variations

The Dear Dead Days*

Apple Blossom Time

The Bellman*

* indicates a story unique to this volume.

Offset printed.

The front and rear covers are designed by Santiago Caruso, each photographic image mounted by hand.
Silk ribbon marker.

In addition, individuals who order directly from the Press will receive an extra large format postcard of Santiago Carusos cover design.

This extra will NOT be available elsewhere!

REVIEWS OF 'Elegies and Requiems'

A 'real-time' review by Des Lewis can be found HERE.His summation is "Unmissable, definitely. Trust me."A further review by Mario Guslandi can be found HERE.In it he says "the tales assembled in the book are so excellent that reading them is almost a physical as well as a mental pleasure"

Beresford Egan (1905-1984) is perhaps best known as a satirist and illustrator, whose success du scandal 'The Sink of Solitude' ( a satire of Radcliffe Halls 'Well Of Loneliness') effectively launched his London career. His work appeared in a number of de-luxe books of the nineteen-twenties and thirties including works by De Sade, Baudelaire, Pierre Louys and Aleister Crowley though Egan also maintained careers as novelist, dramatist, theatre critic and actor. 'Pollen' was his first novel.

'Pollen' and the extra item only available with direct orders; a reproduction of 1933 promotion flyer.

This 1933 semi-autobiographical novel of 'deco-decadence' concerns the artist Lance Daurimer whose bohemian life brings him into contact with the recherche Anna Forster and the rich, but innocent, Marylyn Irriscourt. His relationships with these opposing characters take him from the club-land of Londons West End to the depths of Parisian Monmartre, while his soul vacillates between Luciferian ecstasy and the rites of the Holy Roman Church. The evocation of the former is the books only fantastic element.

Its stylish cynicism and polished prose will find approval from lovers of Wilde and Huysmans, whose clichés of decadence he knowingly (and lovingly) mocks. The novel also has a more caustic edge, satirizing of vacuous 'smart set' of the 'twenties and attacking the hypocracy of establishment morals.

Egans illustrations are integral to the work and, as in the original edition, have been separately printed for maximum quality and inserted, by hand, at the appropriate places within the text. The new edition also adds an end piece illustration unused in the original, and the transcript of a previously unpublished Egan lecture 'Black and White Art: What Is it?' given in 1933.

The volume is further enhanced by an introduction by Egans friend and biographer Adrian Woodhouse, in which he reveals the story behind the production of the original edition and exposes the autobiographical elements within the text.

An overview of Egans life and work by John Hirschhorn-Smith, illustrated with many previously unseen images, is HERE.

Contents:

• 'Pollen' - An Introduction - Adrian Woodhouse

• 'Pollen' - Beresford Egan

• 'Black and White Art: What Is It?' - Beresford Egan [Previously unpublished] Offset printed and blocked on the front cover. Full page illustrations seperately printed inserted by hand into the book during production. Silk ribbon marker.

In addition, individuals who order directly from the Press will receive
an extra item; a reproduction of the original 1935 publicity flyer for 'Pollen' embossed with the Side Real logo and signed by the publisher.

This extra will NOT be available elsewhere!

PHANTOMS AT THE PHIL

Since 2004, Phantoms at the Phil has become a now-traditional opportunity to hear new ghost stories read by their authors in the atmospheric surroundings of Newcastle's extraordinary private library, the Literary and Philosophical Society. Although guests have on occasion been invited to participate, the classic line-up is Chaz Brenchley, Sean O'Brien and Gail-Nina Anderson.

From 2004-2007 three volumes were issued by Side Real Press, in Conjunction with Northern Gothic. The first two ‘Proceedings’ have the added bonus of CD recordings from the events. The third volume of ‘Proceedings’ marked the end of the book series, though the live readings continue.

Our next book will be 'TheSorcerers Apprentice'. which we appreciate is very overdue. We intend to post a (tentative) contents list in the next few days. This will be a straight reprint of the John Day version. Ewers was very
unhappy with the initial translation by Ludwig Lewisohn (who is
credited with it) and went through it himself "line by line" to correct
it before publication. "The result was that hardly a line of Mr. L.L.'s
translation was left! so he surely didn't deserve the honour of having
his name mentioned"- (Letter from H.H.E. to John Day publishers 12th May
1927). Needless to say, the Side Real edition will also contain extra
material, including a fascinating (100 page +) new find.

Though it is extremely unusual for us to announce anything other than the most forthcoming volume we will also indicate the next book post 'TheSorcerers Apprentice' in a few days.

There are also some other (non Ewers) projects in progress.

There are also some other (non Ewers) projects in progress.

OUT OF PRINT

Collected Ghost Stories by Mrs Molesworth(2002)

ISBN: 0-9542953-0-7.

300 numbered copies.

Contents:

Introduction (by by J.N. Smith), Lady Farquhars Old Lady, Witnessed By Two. Unexplained, The Rippling Train, The Shadow In The Moonlight, The Man With The Cough, At The Dip In The Road, Not Exactly A Ghost Story, Old Gervais, A Strange Messenger and A Ghost Of The Pampas by Bevil Molesworth.

Phantoms at the Phil

(2005)

ISBN: 0954295315

300 numbered copies w. CD recording.

Contents:

The Custodian by Sean O'Brien,

The Dust Jacket by Gail-Nina Anderson,

Another Chart of the Silences by Chaz Brenchley

Hanns Heinz Ewers

'Nachtmahr - Strange Tales' (2009)

ISBN: 798-0-9542953-4-9
350 numbered copies

Contents (*=newly translated):

Introduction by J. N. Hirschhorn-Smith

Carnival In Cadiz*

The Dead Jew*John Hamilton Llewellyn's EndGentlemen of the Bar*The Tophar Bride*The Typhoid Mary*The SpiderFairylandFrom The Diary Of An Orange Tree

All the Mahlon Blaine llustrations/title pieces etc from the John day Edition 1929
Illustrations - from the original 1911 German edition - by Ilna Wunderwald Ewers

Hanns Heinz Ewers

'Brevier'

(2012)

No ISBN

200 numbered copies.

Contents:

Introduction by Georg Goyert.
Music.
Art And The Artist.
Love.
Philosophical Observations.
Religion.
Peoples And Lands.
Politics and Love of the Fatherland.
In Person.
(Illustrated with rare photos of Ewers and his parents)